Stephen Joseph
Dr Stephen Joseph has more than 45 years of experience in medicine and public health, in national and international settings, with a progressive increase of responsibility.
Beginning as a paediatric clinician and bush physician, he worked through management, academic, and policy positions to appointments as New York City Commissioner of Health, Dean of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, and Presidential Appointment with Senate Confirmation as Assistant Secretary of Defence (Health Affairs).
His long-term international assignments include service in Nepal, Cameroun and Central West Africa, Northern Newfoundland, and Indonesia, with short-term assignments in more than 25 countries.
He is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha Honour Medical Society, a former Chair of the American Public Health Association and the National Council for International Health, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Paediatrics. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine (IOM) and of the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars.
Dr Joseph received his BA (cum laude) from Harvard University, his MD (cum laude) from Yale University School of Medicine, and his MPH from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. He did his paediatric internship and residency at the Boston Children’s Hospital.
Appointed to the International Board on March 4, 2005 and the AMREF US Board in 2003
Residence: New Mexico
